When Sim City 4 first came out I thought the multiplayer would be somehow real-time or at least persistent, instead of just sending your buddy your map file. Hopefully the multiplayer in this is real-time somehow, that would be sweet. Did you guys see this though? Pre-order is already up, with deluxe edition that already has extra city sets only available with the deluxe and the game is not set to release until 2013...